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Aircraft Versus Aircraft: The Illustrated Story of Fighter Pilot Combat Since 1914by Norman L.R. FranksISBN 0025406205 (0-02-540620-5)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American Westby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0030853222 (0-03-085322-2)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart & Winston
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The Campaigns of Napoleon : The Mind and Method of History's Greatest Soldierby David G. ChandlerISBN 0025236601 (0-02-523660-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated
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The Campaigns of Napoleon is an exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula ("Je n'ai jamais eu un plan d'opérations"), but military historian David Chandler demonstrates this was at best only a half-truth. To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. But there were from the first to the last certain basic principles of strategic maneuver and battlefield planning that he almost invariably put into practice. To clarify these underlying methods, as well as the style of Napoleon's fabulous intellect, Mr. Chandler examines in detail each campaign mounted and personally conducted by Napoleon, analyzing the strategies employed, revealing wherever possible the probable sources of his subject's military ideas.
The book opens with a brief account of Bonaparte's early years, his military education and formative experiences, and his meteoric rise to the rank of general in the army of the Directory. Introducing the elements of Napoleonic "grand tactics" as they developed in his Italian, Egyptian, and Syrian campaigns, Mr. Chandler shows how these principles were clearly conceived as early as the Battle of Castiglione, when Napoleon was only twenty -six. Several campaigns later, he was Emperor of France, busily constructing the Grande Armée. This great war machine is described in considerable detail: the composition of the armies and the élite Guard; the staff system and the methods of command; the kind of artillery and firearms used; and the daily life of the Grande Armée and the all-seeing and all-commanding virtuoso who presided over every aspect of its operation in the field.
As the great machine sweeps into action in the campaigns along the Rhine and the Danube, in East Prussia and Poland, and in Portugal and Spain, David Chandler follows closely every move that vindicates -- or challenges -- the legend of Napoleon's military genius. As the major battles take their gory courses -- Austerlitz, Jena, Fried-land -- we see Napoleon's star reaching its zenith. Then, in the Wagram Campaign of 1809 against the Austrians -- his last real success -- the great man commits more errors of judgment than in all his previous wars and battles put together. As the campaigns rage on, his declining powers seem to justify his own statement: "One has but a short time for war." Then the horrors of the Russian campaign forever shatter the image of Napoleonic invincibility. It is thereafter a short, though heroic and sanguinary, road to Waterloo and St. Helena.
Napoleon appears most strikingly in these pages as the brilliant applier of the ideas of others rather than as an original military thinker, his genius proving itself more practical than theoretical. Paradoxically, this was both his chief strength and his main weakness as a general. After bringing the French army a decade of victory, his methods became increasingly stereotyped and, even worse, were widely copied by his foes, who operated against him with increasing effectiveness toward the end of his career. Yet even though his enemies attempted to imitate his techniques, as have others in the last century and a half, no one ever equaled his success. As these meticulous campaign analyses testify, his multifaceted genius was unique. Even as the end approached, as David Chandler points out, his eclipse was "the failure of a giant surrounded by pygmies."
"The flight of the eagle was over; the 'ogre' was safely caged at last, and an exhausted Europe settled down once more to attempt a return to former ways of life and government. But the shade of Napoleon lingered on irresistibly for many years after his death in 1821. It lingers yet." [via]
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Civilization: A Personal Viewby Kennteh McKenzie Clark, Clark BaronISBN 0060108002 (0-06-010800-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Discourse on Method and Meditationsby Rene DescartesISBN 0023672609 (0-02-367260-9)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600by Antony WildISBN 0004140540 (0-00-414054-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Freedom at Midnightby Larry Collins, Dominique LapierreISBN 0002160552 (0-00-216055-2)
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From Beirut to Jerusalemby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0002150964 (0-00-215096-4)
Hardcover, Collins
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060007761 (0-06-000776-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims -- men, women, and children -- we encounter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the "welcome" that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 -- a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle -- has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-IIby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 000262253X (0-00-262253-X)
Hardcover, Collins : Harvill Press
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II:
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The Guns of Augustby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0026203111 (0-02-620311-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Livesby Alan BullockISBN 0006863744 (0-00-686374-4)
Hardcover, Fontana Press
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The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World Warby Martin GilbertISBN 0030624169 (0-03-062416-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedyby Martin GilbertISBN 0002163055 (0-00-216305-5)
Hardcover, Collins
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The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Companyby John KeayISBN 0006380727 (0-00-638072-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The House of Saud: The Rise and Rule of the Most Powerful Dynasty in the Arab Worldby David HoldenISBN 0030437318 (0-03-043731-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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In the Line of Duty: A Tribute to New York's Finest and Bravestby Bernard B. Kerik, Thomas Von Essen, John BotteISBN 0060093633 (0-06-009363-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Through over 100 pages of black and white photographs (and 16 pages of full colour), this memorial volume documents the heroism of New York's Finest and Bravest in the hours and days following the disaster. With a Foreword in tribute to the search and rescue teams -- and their fallen comrades -- by Commissioner Kerik, and filled with the inspirational words of national and spiritual leaders, In the Line of Duty bears witness to the indomitable spirit of the American people.
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Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding an Abstractby D. HumeISBN 002353110X (0-02-353110-X)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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Inside the Third Reichby Albert SpeerISBN 002037500X (0-02-037500-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside the Third Reich'Book summary:From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen ("Recollections") upon their 1969 publication in German, Speer's critically acclaimed personal history was translated into English and published one year later as Inside the Third Reich. Long after their initial publication, Speer's memoir continues to provide one of the most detailed and fascinating portrayals of life within Hitler's inner circles, the rise and fall of the third German empire, and of Hitler himself.
Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. Speer's recollections of both duties foreground the impossibility of reconciling Hitler's idealistic, imperialistic ambitions with both architectural and military reality. Throughout, Inside the Third Reich remains true to its author's intentions. With compelling insight, Speer reveals many of the "premises which almost inevitably led to the disasters" of the Third Reich as well as "what comes from one man's holding unrestricted power in his hands." -- Bertina Loeffler [via]
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Ireland since the Famineby F. S. L. LyonsISBN 0006332005 (0-00-633200-5)
Hardcover, Fontana
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Jane's Gun Recognition Guideby Ian Hogg, Rob AdamISBN 0004709799 (0-00-470979-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Life and Times of Lord Mountbattenby John TerraineISBN 0030568994 (0-03-056899-4)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Like Lions They Fought: The Zulu War and the Last Black Empire in South Africaby Robert B. EdgertonISBN 0029089107 (0-02-908910-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Modern Germanyby Koppel S. PinsonISBN 0023954205 (0-02-395420-5)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Mountbatten: The Official Biographyby Philip ZieglerISBN 0002165430 (0-00-216543-0)
Hardcover, Collins
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Napoleon's Marshalsby David C. ChandlerISBN 0029059305 (0-02-905930-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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On Libertyby Currin V. Shields, John Stuart MillISBN 0024096903 (0-02-409690-3)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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Ordeal of the Union: The Impoverished War 1861-1862 War Becomes Revolution 1862-1863by Allan NevinsISBN 0020354436 (0-02-035443-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Prolegomena to Any Future Megaphysicsby Immanual KantISBN 0023193301 (0-02-319330-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Megaphysics'Book summary:Kants Prolegomena -- its full title, in the eighteenth-century manner, is Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Which Will Be Able to Come Forth as Science -- is a classic in metaphysics and the theory of knowledge. It deals with the perennially baffling questions: How do we know? How much can we know? Its answers to these questions are interesting especially now. We live in one of the recurring periods of intellectual and cultural history that are skeptical and impatient of systems of speculative metaphysics, and a distrust of speculation is the leading motif of the Prolegomena. Though Kant's arguments against speculative metaphysics differ from those of our contemporaries, in some of his results he anticipates their negative conclusions. The Prolegomena, however, is not interesting merely as an historical anticipation of recent views; indeed, as such it has been as it were condemned in advance by Kant (Prolegomena, Introduction). Rather, its chief interest to the student of philosophy is probably the way in which it goes beyond and against the views of contemporary positivism. The book is therefore a challenge both to those who think metaphysical knowledge of the ultimate nature of things is possible and to those who regard metaphysics as comprising only pious wishes and rationalizations, poetry , "nonsense," and "pseudoproblems." The Prolegomena is, moreover, the best of all introductions to that vast and obscure masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason. It is a guide through what Kant himself calls the "thorny paths" of that work. Because of the central position the Critique occupies in philosophy, the Prolegomena thus makes a major contribution to an understanding of the chief problems of general philosophy, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, and ethics. It has an exemplary lucidity and wit, making it unique among Kant's greater works and uniquely suitable as a textbook of the Kantian philosophy. [via]
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Radclyffe Hall at The Well of Loneliness: A Sapphic Chronicleby Lovat DicksonISBN 0002112353 (0-00-211235-3)
Hardcover, Collins
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The Rise of Merchant Bankingby Stanley D. ChapmanISBN 0043320945 (0-04-332094-5)
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Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914by Richard HolmesISBN 0007137540 (0-00-713754-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914'Book summary:From the bestselling author of "Tommy and Redcoat", a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. "Sahib" is a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India, but its focus, like that of "Tommy and Redcoat" before it, is on the men who served in India and the women who followed them across that vast and dusty continent, bore their children, and, all too often, mopped their brows as they died. The book begins with the remarkable story of India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth century and the Afghan and Sikh Wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century's end. With its focus on the experience of ordinary soldiers, "Sahib" explains to us why soldiers of the Raj had joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived. The book examines Indian soldiering in peace and war, from Kipling's 'snoring barrack room' to storming parties assaulting mighty fortresses, cavalry swirling across open plains, and khaki columns inching their way between louring hills. Making full use of extensive and often neglected archive material in the India Office Library and National Army Museum, "Sahib" does for the British soldier in India - whether serving a local ruler, forming part of the Indian army, or soldiering with a British regiment - what "Tommy" did for the ordinary soldier in the First World War. [via]
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Shooting History: A Personal Journeyby Jon SnowISBN 0007171846 (0-00-717184-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Spandau: The Secret Diariesby Albert SpeerISBN 0002167638 (0-00-216763-8)
Hardcover, Collins
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The War of the Running Dogs: How Malaya Defeated the Communist Guerrillas, 1948-60by Noel BarberISBN 0002119323 (0-00-211932-3)
Hardcover, Collins
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Wellingtonby Elizabeth LongfordISBN 0060126698 (0-06-012669-8)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Wild Swansby Jung ChangISBN 0002153572 (0-00-215357-2)
Hardcover, Harper Collins
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The World We Have Lost: Further Exploredby Peter LaslettISBN 0023678607 (0-02-367860-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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Zimmermann Telegramby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0026203200 (0-02-620320-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zimmermann Telegram'Book summary:In the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war. But President Wilson remained unshakable in his neutrality. Then, with a single stroke, the tool to propel America into the war came into a quiet British office. One of countless messages intercepted by the crack team of British decoders, the Zimmermann telegram was a top-secret message from Berlin inviting Mexico to join Japan in an invasion of the United States: Mexico would recover her lost American territories while keeping the U.S. occupied on her side of the Atlantic. How Britain managed to inform America of Germany's plan without revealing that the German codes had been broken makes for an incredible, true story of espionage, intrigue, and international politics as only Barbara W. Tuchman could tell it. [via]
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Bonifacio VIII, I Caetani E La Storia Del Lazio: Atti Del Convegno Di Studi Storici Roma, Palazzo Caetani, 30 Novembre 2000, Latina, Palazzo M, 1 Dicembre 2000, Sermoneta, Castello Caetani, 2 Dicembre 2000by Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Richard Gilly NixonISBN 0000000000 (0-00-000000-0)
Hardcover, L'Erma Di Bretschneider
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